WBGZ Radio 4/27/2021 |
By Doug Jenkins - WBGZ Radio
Plans are in motion at SIUE to study how to ramp up the process of converting municipal waste to ethanol in an efficient manner. The research will be done through the National Corn to Ethanol Research Center. Two proposals were recently submitted for funding.
The first, as NCERC’s Director of Business Development and Client Relations Jackie Pohlman tells The Big Z, has already received funding through the University’s Transitional and Exploratory Projects (STEP) grant program.
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She says the hope is by “scaling up” the process it can be replicated and more waste to biofuel conversion can take place. Pohlman credits the work of Jie Dong, PhD, and Dr. Yan Zhang with making this project possible. You can hear the full interview with Pohlman
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by Rhiannon Branch (Brownfield Ag News) The director of the National Corn to Ethanol Research Center says they have some big research projects in the works paving the way to new uses for US corn.
John Caupert tell Brownfield they are finding more and more products can be made from corn ethanol instead of petroleum.
“The latest would be in polymers. Polymers can range from a plastic bottle that contains drinking water, to carpet fibers, all the way to possibly the fibers that are in clothing.”
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“We are taking corn, we are running it through a conventional or a modified corn to ethanol process, then heighten the level of digestible protein in the ethanol co-product which then makes for a very high value, high protein to be utilized in aquaculture diets.” READ MORE